‘Come out with your hands behind your head.’ The Worst Criminal in the World went into a panic when he heard the announcement. He began pacing the...room, shifting the gun from hand to hand without seeing where it was being aimed. I flinched every time the barrel pointed in my direction, and my body went cold as the tremors grew worse with every passing moment. ‘You can end this right now,’ the officer continued, beginning to sound like he was reading the script from a crime drama. ‘Just come out. " Oh, thank you Father. That would be lovely. I don't like to put you out..." Not at all. It would be a pleasure."She smiled, and I felt my heart lurch; she really was quite attractive. She stood and shook my hand. "I must go, Father. But if you would care to visit on Wednesday, that is my day for housework and so on. I would be glad to see you then."Thus it was that I began to visit Ethel, initially once a week for an hour, but gradually that extended as she shed her village responsibilities.. Secretly, I didn’t want to be whisked away someplaceGary couldn’t follow and keep an eye on me, both forhis benefit and my security. As we went to the counterhe told me of an adult cinema close by where perhaps wemight have fun. Gary stood looking at a book near thecounter and mouthed ‘Are you ok?’ I nodded andsignalled he should follow us.We walked my new accomplice and I through the almostdeserted industrial backstreets. He was not the mostprepossessing of companions. We have already sent them some pictures we made of us all,” he said.“That reminds me, Murphy, you and I need to sit down and pick out which pictures we want to send to Jerry, and ‘The Three Amigos, ‘“ Meghan said.“Mom, Allisyn just sent him an email, from you, with all we had on the memory card. It took a while, there were over a hundred.” Bobby grinned.“Oh well,” I laughed.“Murphy, we have a friend we met yesterday that we need some help with. She is very beautiful, and very shy; Bobby and I.